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xiii Acknowledgments Dur ing t h e r esea r c h for this publication, we received gracious support from both individuals and organizations. People who shared their knowledge and expertise included Anne-Marie Cantwell, Shirley W. Dunn, Marc B. Fried, Charles Gehring, Robert S. Grumet, George R. Hamell, Laurence M. Hauptman, Jaap Jacobs, Eric J. Roth, Blair Rudes, and Janny Venema. Among the organizations, we wish to express our gratitude to the staff of the New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division, in particular for the permission to publish this account book. In addition, we received assistance from the Ulster County Records Center, Ulster County Clerk’s Office, where Ken Grey, Archivist, was especially helpful; the Bevier House Museum; and the Ulster County Historical Society, particularly Melinda J. Terpening, Director. Portions of the introduction and sample pages of the translation were previously published in Kees-Jan Waterman and J. Michael Smith, “An Account Book of the Indian Trade in Ulster County, New York, 1712–1732,” Hudson River Valley Review 21, no. 1 (Autumn 2007): 59–84. We wish to thank the editors of that journal for their permission to reproduce sections from that article. We are also indebted to the staffs of Mount Gulian Historic Site, Beacon, New York, and the Ulster County Clerk’s Office, Kingston, New York, for their permission to reproduce photographs of Wappinger and Esopus artifacts. We also express our gratitude to the D.U.T.C.H. Foundation for funding part of the publishing costs of this book. ...

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